Unobtanium:I guess this means there hasn't been a bee die-off. They were all at this guy's house.

At the very least they should find out what this guy is doing right. I moved out of the central valley a few years ago so I haven't been keeping up, but the guys in my area were having problems just keeping established hives going. Good hives became so scarce, folks were "bee-jacking" hives from the orchards.

Three million is not that many bees. A fair sized hive will have about 160,000 bees, so that's 18 hives. My brother had a 200,000 bee hive in the backyard when we were growing up and I think my siblings and I each got stung once over the years.

The local juvenile delinquents who thought it would be cool to tip the hive over were stung several hundred times. If only Uncle Darwin had been able to work his magic on them. I suppose we could have been sued, but the yard was fenced in so they were either breaking and entering, or at least trespassing. My brother and I beat the shiat out of them just in case they missed the message, the stupid 'tards.

//Best honey in the world, right out of the hive. As long as you don't kill a bee, they don't mind if you take the top off and break off a chunk of comb.